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A Palestinian boy runs through an alley in Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday. Maya Hitij/AP

Pakistani women participate in a rally against Facebook in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday. Pakistan's government ordered Internet service providers to block the social networking site amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. B.K.Bangash/AP

Foreign tourists carry a giant sea turtle to be released at Kuta beach on the Indonesian island of Bali on Thursday. They were helping Balinese police, who seized some 70 illegal sea turtles on Wednesday, release the turtles back to the sea. Firdia Lisnawati/AP

South Korean Marines stand guard on Baengnyeong Island, South Korea, near the border with North Korea on Thursday. South Korea accused North Korea of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship in March, killing 46 sailors in the country's worst military disaster since the Korean War. Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap/AP

Two tourists stand on a sidewalk along Fifth Avenue in New York City on Thursday, where an anonymous artist had painted a white line and the words 'New Yorkers' and 'Tourists' in an attempt to divide pedestrian lanes between locals and visitors. Mike Segar/Reuters

A blue tang, symbolizing Japan's national soccer team who are popularly known as 'Blue Samurai,' and a flame angelfish, symbolizing Denmark's national soccer team, swim near a small transparent soccer ball containing fish food inside a tank made to look like a soccer stadium at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, Japan. The special installation started on Thursday ahead of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup in which Japan will face Denmark in Group E. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

A tourist reads a newspaper as he floats in the Dead Sea resort of Ein Gedi in Israel on Thursday. Baz Ratner/Reuters

A fireman surveys the interior of a theater destroyed by raging fires set by arsonists in Bangkok, Thursday. The Thai government declared Thursday it had mostly quelled ten weeks of violent protests in the capital while buildings smoldered, troops rooted out small pockets of resistance and residents attempted a return to normal life. Wason Wanichakorn/AP

Demonstrators protest at the Greek Parliament in front of riot police in central Athens. More than 20,000 people took part in Thursday's rally against austerity measures in debt-strapped Greece, as labor unions staged their fourth general strike this year. Petros Giannakouris/AP

Sweden's Johan Harju (r.), and Denmark's Nichlas Hardt vie for the puck during the quarterfinal match between Sweden and Denmark at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Mannheim, Germany, Thursday. Daniel Maurer/AP

Protesters dressed in Robin Hood costumes with symbolic Euro money bags demonstrate in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Thursday, demanding a so called 'Robin Hood Tax' as a tax against poverty. Markus Schreiber/AP

A woman cycles past a poster at a construction site in Taipei, Taiwan, on Thursday. Taiwan's economy grew at its fastest annual rate in over 30 years in the first quarter, but the pace of growth has slowed due to potential policy tightening in China and fallout from the euro zone debt crisis. Nicky Loh/Reuters

Mexican President Felipe Calderon addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday. Behind him is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. (r.), and Vice President Joe Biden. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP

Former North Korean defectors living in South Korea and relatives of South Koreans kidnapped by the North release balloons carrying leaflets and CDs denouncing North Korea and its leader Kim Jung-il, toward the North from Baengnyeong Island near the border. North Korea said on Thursday it would take strong measures, including war, if the South imposes sanctions after accusing it of sinking a navy ship, Yonhap news agency said. The North's National Defense Commission said in a statement carried on its state radio that the South's findings blaming it for the sinking of the navy corvette were a fabrication. Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap/Reuers

Cindy Hickey (r.), mother of Shane Bauer, and Nora Shourd (2nd l.), mother of Sarah Shourd, hug their children at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran, Iran on Thursday. Iran detained the three Americans, Sarah Shourd, her boyfriend, Shane Bauer, and their friend Josh Fattal, along the Iraqi border and have accused them of spying. Their relatives reject the accusation and say the three were hiking in Iraq's scenic and largely peaceful northern Kurdish region. Press TV/AP

Visitors view a life sized model of a sleeping Fidel Castro which is part of an installation by Chinese artist Shen Shaomin titled 'Summit' at the 17th Biennale of Sydney on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, on Thursday. The three-month-long Biennale features over 440 works of art from 36 countries. Tim Wimborne/Reuters